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BA(Hons) Technical Theatre and Production is the only undergraduate honour’s programme currently available in Scotland offering a comprehensive range of subjects in Technical Theatre.

BA(Hons) Technical Theatre and Production aims to intersect the notion of ‘art’, ’technology' and ‘performance’ and to help students identify and refine their specialist strands within the subject. The students will be introduced to academic research skills for practice-led and practice-based research, and will be critically engaged with interdisciplinary concepts around stagecraft, scenography and education. The programme invites the students to a range of masterclasses led by leading industry professionals and scholars, as well as 'Theatre Lab', bi-weekly collaborative sessions where students stage a new performance at the Gaiety Theatre. In addition, the students can participate in a number of collaborative projects with other HE institutions, arts and cultural organisations across Scotland. This programme is ideal for designers, artists and educators in a performance and performative context. Successful completion of this course aims to create career opportunities in theatre, film, television, visual art and education; as well as preparing students to pursue avenues of postgraduate study.

The Uni

What students say

We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

80%

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Technical theatre studies

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Resources and organisation

Student voice

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

Source: HESA

99%

UK students

1%

International students

34%

Male students

66%

Female students

37%

2:1 or above

5%

Drop out rate

After graduation

Source: DHLE and HECSU

The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Drama

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£17,000

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Average annual salary

94%

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Employed or in further education

100%

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Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

33%

Artistic, literary and media occupations

17%

Sales assistants and retail cashiers

13%

Other elementary services occupations

Drama is a very popular degree subject — in 2015, over 5,000 degrees were awarded to UK graduates. With so many graduates around, jobs in acting are very sought-after and often gained through personal contacts, or through your careers service so be prepared to practise your people skills and to make full use of your university facilities. But there are lots of roles in the arts for drama graduates, in direction, production, audio-visual, set and clothing design and PR. The skills taught by drama courses can be useful elsewhere — a lot of the economy can use people who can perform and present in front of others, and so drama graduates can be found in teaching, management, advertising, project and events organisation and community work. Be aware that freelancing and self-employment is common, as are what is termed 'portfolio careers' — having several part-time jobs or commissions at once — one in ten drama graduates last year had more than one job on the go at once after six months. And starting salaries are not the best - but nevertheless the large majority of drama graduates going into acting still felt that it was just the job for them regardless of pay.

What about your long term prospects?

Source: LEO

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Technical theatre studies

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£13k

£13k

First year

£15k

£15k

Third year

£17k

£17k

Fifth year

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF):

We've received this information from the Department for Education, via Ucas. This is how the university as a whole has been rated for its quality of teaching: gold silver or bronze. Note, not all universities have taken part in the TEF.

This information comes from the National Student Survey, an annual student survey of final-year students. You can use this to see how satisfied students studying this subject area at this university, are (not the individual course).

We calculate a mean rating of all responses to indicate whether this is high, medium or low compared to the same subject area at other universities.

This information is from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

You can use this to get an idea of who you might share a lecture with and how they progressed in this subject, here. It's also worth comparing typical A-level subjects and grades students achieved with the current course entry requirements; similarities or differences here could indicate how flexible (or not) a university might be.

Post-six month graduation stats:

This is from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Survey, based on responses from graduates who studied the same subject area here.

It offers a snapshot of what grads went on to do six months later, what they were earning on average, and whether they felt their degree helped them obtain a 'graduate role'. We calculate a mean rating to indicate if this is high, medium or low compared to other universities.

While there are lots of factors at play when it comes to your future earnings, use this as a rough timeline of what graduates in this subject area were earning on average one, three and five years later. Can you see a steady increase in salary, or did grads need some experience under their belt before seeing a nice bump up in their pay packet?